gold fields

Chinese translation of the Gold Fields Regulations and Gold Fields Act, 1873. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 18224

The Chinese question

With the commencement of the Queensland gold-rushes in the 1860s, large numbers of Chinese miners and businesses arrived, and competition with Europeans led to rising tensions.

District between Charters Towers and the coast, 1878

Charters Towers, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1878

23 September 2010

Location

Charters Towers, QLD

Australia

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23 September 2010

Brisbane

Government Engraving & Lithographic Office

Houses constructed in Charters Towers during the gold rush were later moved to Townsville, 130 kilometres away. Geological sketch map of the district between Charters Towers Goldfield & the Coast, by Robert L. Jack, FGS, FRGS, 1878. Printed at the Government Engraving & Lithographic Office, Brisbane, H.W.Fox lithographer. Collection of the National Library of Australia.

The 'Golden Age' newspaper press lying 20 miles west of the Palmer Bridge at Maytown, used in 1876, c1964. Cumbersome iron hand presses came to northern coastal centres by ship before being tr

Movable heritage of North Queensland

Heritage significance is often based on associations between specific places and particular people, groups or events.

Chinatowns

A notable feature of the early Chinese settlement in Queensland, as in other places where overseas Chinese societies developed, was a communal pattern of settlement.

Town of Paradise, 1891

Paradise, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1891

Location

Paradise, QLD

Australia

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Brisbane

Surveyor General's Office

4 chains to an inch

The Paradise survey of 1891. Allen Street bisected the river flat while the cross streets ascended the ridges behind the flat to meet River View Terrace. Town of Paradise (Paradise Gold Field) Parish of Coringa, County of Cook, Maryborough Land Agent's District, printed and published at the Surveyor General's Office, Brisbane, 1891, price 1 shilling. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Order in Paradise: a colonial gold field

The gold mining town of Paradise once stretched for more than a kilometre along the southern bank of the Burnett River in Central Queensland.